Star Wars – Twilight Seekers Campaign Index

Spellweaver 81 – Kira Keldav’s player – has been compiling an index of the material for the Twilight Seekers Star Wars Game. Given that time problems have left my indexing well behind, he’s kindly allowed me to repost that index here… Campaign Background: Scale of the Galaxy: Or why anyone can find anything despite it [...]

The Light That Kills! Positive Energy, Part II

To continue with the request for some nasty – or at least weird – positive-energy based abilities for Eclipse… Malignant Healing: Healing is a vital component of life; without healing, the wear and tear of daily activities would wear away skin and flesh to make daily life an excruciatingly drawn-out version of the death of [...]

Come Into The Light – The Light That Kills!

In many d20 games, “Positive Energy” equates to healing, goodness, and rainbows filled with kittens. It’s a power that good-guy clerics get to use to keep the rest of the party alive and to blast those nasty undead. What could be better? But positive energy also drives the hemorrhagic fever that splatters the room in [...]

Fantastic Coinage III – Ervoli Feather Bands and Tenebrous Obals

Ervoli Feather Bands The Ervoli Nomads carry little; they have a hard enough time wresting survival from their desert lands without burdening themselves with extra weight. Their mostly-ceremonial “coinage” consists of Feather Bands – intricate pieces of feather-and-bead art which record legends, great events, and accounts of the lives of wise men, heroes, and exceptional [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Session 192c – Reporting In

Meanwhile, Philsantias had reached the metallic dragon territories to give his report. The metallic elders had lost several agents already, starting with an adolescent silver trio who had tried just barging in and working up from there – and were quite pleased to have gotten anyone back at all (although they’d learned a lot from [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Session 192b – Dragon Hunting

Sartheri had used his shapeshifting to take a much smaller form, run his smartfibers around the area, and set up a variety of cloaking magics and observation methods by the time Philsantias carefully emerged from his pocket-dimension. Ah! Indeed a young adult male silver! A powerful mage, either with psychic abilities or some sort of [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Session 192a – A Dragon Born

Raphael quieted… Something large, and powerful, was pulling at him – insistently drawing his attention. The room faded in around him in a sensory overload. EVERYTHING was broader-ranged, and more acute, than normal – and he… had senses that his mind had never been designed to handle, burning through unfamiliar channels in his local brain. [...]

Fantastic Coinage II: Varisinian Cursed Bloodcoins, Wraith Stelae, Shan Herb Packets, and Caradan Sacred Cross-Tokens

Varisinian Cursed Bloodcoins When the great city of Varisinian finally fell after an eight-month siege, the long-frustrated attackers ran amuck and massacred almost everyone they found before seizing it’s treasures, staining the streets and buildings of he city with the blood of men, women, and children. The gold of the citizens and the great treasury [...]

Exalted – The Silver Fates and the Victory of Samsara

The Loom of Fate binds Creation. For each event it binds together billions of possible timelines and outcomes, fusing them into one consensual – or averaged – reality. By virtue of those interwoven threads of time creation becomes more “real” than the chaos of the Wyld. Unlike the creatures outside fate, the peoples of Creation [...]

Exalted – The Winding Way (Sidereal Manse **** or any Manse *****)

The Winding Way is a spiraling path hewn from the living stone that winds through and up a small mountain. The narrow rune-inscribed way is never the same twice; a myriad possible, but mutually exclusive, ways lie before anyone who enters the manse. They will never see more than one. Each separate and individual path [...]

Fantastic Coinage I – Aventine Drakes, Bordarian Tradesilver, and Morollian Spellcoins

Well, since the topic was money, here are a few exotic coinages… Aventine Drakes Even the darkest evils are sometimes mourned by the pure and innocent. Their tears descend into the infernal realms as sparks of purest light, and are there encysted in layers of infernal force until neutrality is achieved. With the luster of [...]

Eclipsing Currency – Characters and Wealth

This time it’s the answer to a question: How much starting money do starting characters get in Eclipse? -Jasper Merendino Starting wealth isn’t addressed in detail in Eclipse (mostly being limited to the options of taking the “broke” disadvantage, accepting whatever the default for the game is, and taking “privilege; wealthy”) because the notion of [...]

Eclipse – the Darkling Template (+2 ECL)

Magic can cause very strange deaths. And spirits… spirits cling to life. Every so often, when a creature is slain by shadow magic, the same power that destroys it’s physical body touches it’s spirit – allowing it to pass into it’s bodies shadow, rather than departing for the Outer Planes. As the body decays, and [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXVIII – Speculations on the Coming Darkness

Aden was, as yet, a relatively small world – but it was beautiful, and welcoming, and supportive. It was also humming with power and activity, with thirty-odd major manses generating their guardians (of various types), and those guardians staffing the existing manses, bringing lesser manses online, and setting up additional features of the world. Lord [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Session 191b – Debates and Discussions

Back with the Rats and Mice of NIMH there were a lot of workers and materials heading to the surface – accompanied by tantalizing rumors about a bunch of really powerful mages running about the city, assisting the defense, granting people magical power, and using weirdly powerful children and pets as a personal guard. With [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Session 191a – The Many Worlds Apotheosis

Back in Core, Mr Anvari was researching legal options, in preparation for barging into Kadia and confronting Kevin. All that little bastard’s personal power wouldn’t matter a bit in the face of a court order! The lawyers weren’t too promising about direct suits – some jurisdictional nonsense, as if there was any question as to [...]

The Chronicles of Heavenly Artifice Part XXVII – Hints and Allegations

Things went along – if not well, than at least passably – for several weeks. That at least let him get a few more segments of Aden – and their Manses – done. New Manse Power: Dance of the Dragon Lords (4, Solar Favored): The manse amplifies the essence of those within it, and makes [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Sessions 189-190 part IV – Don Quixote the Innkeeper

Somewhat to Raphael’s irritation – what, were these two TRYING to turn him into a balloon? – the first distraction to catch Kevin and Marty’s eyes was another restaurant… Kevin grinned, realized that practically everyone in the party had hairy feet – and promptly voted for “Second breakfast and perhaps elevenses!”. Partly promptly picked up [...]

Eclipse d20: Elemental Infusion Template (+2 ECL)

Many a hero, familiar, and creature of fantasy is “Infused with Elemental Power” – usually fire, earth, air, or water, although countless stranger examples exist. Such creatures are usually… Impervious to the elemental power that they’re infused with, but vulnerable to it’s opposite. Capable of tapping into some inner well or other source of elemental [...]

Federation-Apocalypse Sessions 189-190 part III – Damsels and Diplomats

Back in Cyarkian, Marty’s body had wound up at the “Watering Rat Hole” – where the city guards went to drinks. Between that and having remembered to tell his pocket companions to keep an eye out for pickpockets and other miscreants there was no trouble… Few of the local criminal types were willing to risk [...]